A further exploration of the meaning of childhood in Spike Lee's Crooklyn, with particular attention to how childhood and adulthood sit in an ambiguous relation and produce both constriction and possibility. I'm interested in how the song "Ooh Child" by Five Stairsteps expresses the moral and ethical message of the film, namely, that whatever the abject conditions and sense of fate for Black people in an anti-Black world, that suffering is also and always accompanied by great beauty and sense of possibility - here, portrayed in the child-life of Troy. This portrait offers a complex vision of Black girlhood and women's work, appreciating joy and resistance alongside the pathos of everyday life, but also, I think, a broader claim about Black life in a world saturated with antiblackness.